Chew On This | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Chew On This | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Ram Sarangan |Updated: September 21, 2019 1:30:05 am

Chew On This

Cow and Company by Parashar Kulkarni provides that fodder in the form of an epic battle of the ages between chewing gum, which the British Chewing Gum Company wants to introduce in India, and “the empire of paan — the sun never truly set on it”.

From the hunt on swelteringly hot streets for a cow, which is eventually taken to the second floor of a colonial building, to disastrous attempts to survey the consumption of paan, Cow and Company manages to pull up these and many other aspects of society in a comparatively short space.

Book: Cow and Company

Author: Parashar Kulkarni

Publishing: Penguin Viking

Pages: 174 pages

Price: Rs 399